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Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Pictorial wraps. Binding is tight. Spine is straight. Corners are sharp. Content is clean. No markings. No shelf wear. Includes: Contents, Notes, Appendix, Authors Biographies. 236 p. Editor's note / Andra?s Sza?nto? -- Introduction: Follies of orthodoxy / Orville Schell -- Orwell then and now / David Rieff -- The limits of language / Nicholas Lemann -- Words in a tome of war : on rhetoric, truth, and power / Mark Danner -- An egregious collocation of vocables / Patricia J. Williams -- Freedom, liberty, and rights : three cautionary tales / Aryeh Neier -- Sloppiness and the English language / Francine Prose -- What Orwell didn't know about the brain, the mind, and language / George Lakoff -- The new frontier : the instruments of emotion / Drew Westen -- Stellar spin / Frances FitzGerald -- Bad knowledge / Alice O'Connor -- Black and white, or gray : a Polish conundrum / Konstanty Gebert -- After the Falwellians / Susan Harding -- Welcome to the infotainment freak show / Martin Kaplan -- Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will stay the couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds : but what about big media? / Victor Navasky -- Reporters and rhetoric / Geoffrey Cowan -- Lessons from the war zone / Farnaz Fassihi -- Our own thought police / Michael Massing -- Epilogue: What I didn't know : open society reconsidered / George Soros -- Appendix: Politics and the English language / George Orwell.…

Condizione: Good. 4to. [ca 223] pp. Very Good+. Soft Cover. Printed stiff paper wraps. Pages fine. Color and B&W plates throughout. Published by NAJP. Scarce. ISBN: 0974638307 9780974638300.Essays which expand upon ideas introduced at "The New Gatekeepers: A Conference on Free Expression in the Arts" held Nov. 2002 at Columbia University, New York, N.Y., organized by the National Arts Journalism Program.…